1.0 Introduction
1.1 BattleBots Tournament A BattleBots Tournament celebrates the sport of robotic combat through a contest of battling machines. Teams design, build and control combat robots to demonstrate their creativity, engineering skills, strategy, and driving ability. A BattleBots Tournament may be structured as either single or double elimination Matches. BattleBots Inc. will notify participants of the type prior to the beginning of competition. Robot Safety The safety of all concerned must be foremost at all times during the design, construction, testing, shipping, preparation, maintenance, staging, activation, competition, deactivation and any other activity involving a combat robot. Common sense and safety awareness are foremost in all areas of construction and operation. Building and operating combat robots can be dangerous. Do not build or operate a combat robot unless you are qualified to do so, or are supervised by a responsible and qualified supervising adult. Owners are solely responsible for their robot whether or not it complies with the rules of BattleBots Inc. or has been inspected for safety or otherwise by BattleBots Inc. The robot builder's responsibility includes all matters of safety, condition, design, conformity to law, operation, merchantability and fitness for use and for any particular purpose.

A “BattleBots-Qualified Combat Robot” ("BattleBots Robot") is robot that has passed the Safety/Technical (“Safety/Tech”) Inspection, and is thus allowed to compete in a BattleBots contest, subject to the rules and restrictions contained in this and other BattleBots documents.
1.3.4 BattleBox

The “BattleBox” is the arena in which BattleBots combat takes place. The BattleBox may also be used for robot testing purposes.

A "Team" is a person or group of people associated with the design, construction and/or support of one or more combat robots.
1.3.7 Entrant

An "Entrant" is a Team that has registered to enter a combat robot into a BattleBots Tournament. Entrant may refer to the Team as whole or to each individual or organizational member of the Team.
1.3.8 Entry Class

The “Entry Class” defines what kind of combat robot may be entered, and the allowed composition of the Entrant’s Team. 1.4 Documents and Information Sources Multiple documents and information sources define the requirements for participation in BattleBots. All Entrants must be familiar with the contents of these documents and sources.
1.4.1 Primary Documents

These BattleBots Tournament Rules define the operational rules for a safe, fair and efficient BattleBots Tournament. The BattleBots Building Rules (“Building Rules”) define the requirements specific to the design and construction of a BattleBots-compliant combat robot. There may be different Building Rules for each Entry Class. There may be other BattleBots Inc. documents that provide additional information.
1.4.2 BattleBots Internet Information

The BattleBots website contains general information on BattleBots and also makes available copies of BattleBots documents. BattleBots Inc. may send e-mail messages to current and former Entrants to provide event and/or competition-specific information on a timely basis.
1.4.3 Entrant Responsibility

It is the sole responsibility of every potential Entrant to verify that they are referencing the last-updated version of any BattleBots document available on the BattleBots website. It is also each Entrant's responsibility to check their e-mail regularly.